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v.   DEVIL MAY CRY the false angel / demon of the shirogane

angels were not real, nor did their false imitations hail from the heavens. shirogane kira is a constant reminder of that.

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v. POKEMON you'll keep chasing that light before the dawn.

name: kira shirogane aliases: professor kira home town: kira was born and raised in oldale town in the hoenn region, before she and her family had moved to accumula town in the unova region. current location: depends, seeing as kira tends to move around from region to region a lot, but can most commonly be found around unova, kalos and hoenn. occupation: pokemon trainer, pokemon professor, pokestar studios actress

the team! currently traveling with kira right now,

" noct " : a male hydreigon, found as a deino in victory road. one of the later additions to her team that she had caught while she was on her way the first time to challenge the elite four. he only joined the team after her battle with the champion, and grew up while kira was traveling. she always carried that deino around with her in her arms, sometimes even as a zweilous (he's spoiled), until she eventually couldn't as a hydreigon.

" hoshi " : a female alolan ninetales that was a gift from her grandfather who was always traveling, given to her when she moved away from hoenn. loves attention, the star of the love and battles series.

" kazuki ": a female swampert, kira's main partner who she got as her starter pokemon when she was ten years old.

" ikki " : a female milotic, caught as a feebas when kira had gone fishing one time near fortree city in hoenn. unfortunately, she had already name her as a feebas, hence the name ikki. very calm, watches over the other pokemon and has the tendency of spraying both people and pokemon she considers unruly.

" tali " : a female espeon that kira had found as a stray eevee in slateport city, hoenn. definitely the most mischievous of the pokemon and hates staying in her pokeball, which is why tali's always seen walking around with kira. she has the tendency to wander off and get into her own trouble, but always finds her way back to kira.

" sanzu " : a male honchcrow that kira found as a murkrow when she was a kid and got lost in the woods. sanzu had been trying to steal some of her shinier things in her bag when he had stopped upon seeing a four year old kira crying. he helped her get back home and stayed with her, eventually staying in her house until he eventually decided to become her pokemon when kira went off on her own journey around hoenn, letting her keep him in a pokeball. he still tends to snatch things, though.

" nao " : a male chandelure that has the tendency of sneaking up on people, though is very shy. can commonly be seen hanging around tali, who he has always been most comfortable with.

a glimpse at those who are probably napping at home,

the shirogane clan was originally from the hoenn region. kira had grown up in oldale town along with her parents and three brothers. she was introduced to pokemon battles when she would go and watch the pokemon battles her mother would participate in, during different tournaments throughout hoenn. masako shirogane had been a strong trainer, earning that reputation with her meganium at her side. it was kira's admiration for her mother that made her want to pursue being a pokemon trainer herself.

in the year she her family planned to move to unova, she had gone on her own journey as a pokemon trainer to attempt the gym challenge, leaving with her mudkip and vulpix at her side. although she hadn't been able to defeat the champion in hoenn, she had enjoyed the experience of her journey, finding it the most fun she ever had, and it only sparked her ambition to be able to become stronger alongside her pokemon.

eventually, kira had moved to accumula town in unova, where she had taken up working as an assistant to professor juniper to learn more about pokemon. with the rise of team plasma, kira found herself following the movement of their plans after witnessing their demonstration in her hometown, and witnessing them stealing their pokemon for herself. it was her research regarding unova's ancient artifacts and it's link to the legendary dragons that caught team plasma's attention, and in order to get a better understanding of their motivations, kira had played along under the guise of her ambition and greed to learn leading her to "cooperate" with them. though, she ceased the moment they had tried to take away her pokemon.

now : kira had chosen to follow her own path of research after her period of assisting professor juniper, though instead of devoting her research to just one region, she decided to continue traveling and continue battling all the while, simply because she found it fun. at one point, kira was approached by a pokestar studio's agent after witnessing one of her battles and offered her the chance to star in a movie, which she had taken for the fun of it. starring in the " mystery doors of the magical land " series had set off her career as an actress, being known for hits such as " ghost eraser " and " love and battles ".

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— Trista Mateer, from “i still forget we’re not even friends”

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Jane Austen // Nizar Qabbani

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Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 1.08 (2024)

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― Virginia Woolf, Carlyle's House & Other Sketches

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Charles Baudelaire, from Sed non Satiata

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when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

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They did not expect you to fight. They expected you to cower down, bow before them, accept the fate that they had thought out for you. All the more satisfying, then, to smirk up at them through the blood, saying i'm not done yet. You have no idea of the extent of my defiance.

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v.   FINAL FANTASY XVI the raven /    wild magic witch    /    empress of hazakura

the empire of hazakura is located somewhere near the blighted lands of ash and has become isolated from the rest of valisthea with waloed knocking on its borders. it was said that hazakura has only lasted as long as it has because it somehow manages to bring forth their champion who could harness wild magics just as beasts like behemoths  do, and legends of old had once said that there was someone named kazehaya who could have rivaled a dominant's ability but not an eikon's, though the centuries old texts are blurry at best and have since been shrug off as a mere children's tale to give a sense of hope. no such champion has been born in generations.

because of their isolation from valishtea, there is little word that leaves the state of the empire and little cares for them as they had long since lost allies in the other nations. they managed to preserve a great number of texts within their archive, kept by one they call the archivist in the grand tower of the capital. it was the royal's duty to be able to preserve this information and learn from it as well.

the descendants of kazehaya were said to have disappeared until a woman who had come from ash appeared one day:    masako, who then married hanshiro horikoshi, the next to be emperor.   kira was born to be the next vessel for wild magic. even before her birth, that was what was intended for her. their sacrificial princess, a vessel for the wild magic that no one else could harbor. it was with a heavy heart that her parents had considered this fate but they loved their children dearly.     their first two children, matsuko and ashitaka, did not have the same capability to withstand or harbor it (both born without the capability when they were brought to the ancient temple), but when kira was brought there as an infant, she did not infect any signs of magic either, the temple of the primordial moon had chosen her to bare the covenant of wild magic.

while they were traveling to the ancient temple which was outside of the walls of hazakura, they were ambushed with people from the order of radical believers in the primordial moon (cough obsessed cultists cough). they wanted to take the vessel because they believed they are some kind of divine messenger. matsuko, the eldest who was around nine at the time, was forced to take his siblings and run when his mother told him to. matsu was nine, ashitaka was four, and kira was two years old.

after running for so long and trying to make their way to the nearest town, they were found by a group of mercenaries led by a man named trevelyan who took them in. kira and her brothers were taken in by the mercenaries who became like their family, traveling around valisthea. matsuko is the only one who knows of their true identities as the children of the royal family in hazakura but keeps it a secret, per his mother's instructions. he leaves at one point around a few years later because he went to search for a way back to hazakura while his siblings continue to travel with the mercenaries.

four years before the main timeline: the mercenaries were doing a job as hired blades for some people who hired and eventually betrayed them. a lot of the mercenaries, including trevelyan, were slaughtered, but they were close enough in rosaria territory to have been found and the shields managed to intervene just in time.     lord murdoch found a ten year old kira holding her baby brother, yuu, in one arm and a sword that was much too big for he in the other, pointed at the lord commander in effort to defend herself. murdoch eventually manages to earn her trust and brings her back to rosaria where she was eventually adopted by rodney and lady hanna.

the surviving mercenaries are made into shields in their debt for their lives being saved. kira's constant reinvention of herself, even when she was just a child, becoming who she needs to survive. adapting into becoming a lady in rosaria, learning how to speak and act as she’s expected to. also training to become a shield following the lord commander's footsteps, much more used to carrying swords around like a squire, as she was used to with the mercenaries, than etiquette lessons, but she did her best with those as well.

she did not feel like she fit in, when it came to rosaria, because she knew her place there was fickle. an outsider, despite how her adoptive parents cared for her, she feared that one slip up on her end could jeopardize the place that she had there, as well as her brothers and the other mercenaries. they had better opportunities than when they were on the road, and she wanted that for them.     eventually begins to accustom herself to the life she led in eastpool, enjoying it there. can be seen often following lord murdoch around if she is within rosalith, at to her duties and lessons almost methodically.       a quiet girl who carried a sword remarked to be much too big for her, but she retorts by saying she will grow into it. shows no sign of wild magic yet.

fast forward to what happened at the gate, kira was fourteen. she was there but never saw what happened to lord rodney, she just assumed he was dead. when the dragoons found and captured her in the woods nearby, they almost killed her but she manage to escape and run.     later on is found by he brother matsuko while she was on her way back to eastpool but he tells her that sanbreque had already be there and he take he back to hazakura.

kira has become a woman of many masks, whatever she deems necessary to survive. she was named the empress of hazakura shortly after she finished the covenant that augments her into someone capable of summoning magic that comes from the wild aether, such as the beasts you could find in valisthea. 

she believes that the council naming her as the empress and supporting her claim was only a means of having an actual ruler from the horikoshi bloodline on the throne. she sees herself as nothing more than a sacrificial pawn, for her true place was on the battlefield, being the weapon that they needed, the one to carry their burdens.     it was with her rule that hazakura manages with the blight so close to them, being able to manage their resources more effectively and establishing trade routes that had previously been closed.

she has also created a name for herself as a masked figure known as the raven, the leader of a group of blades that a by their own volition, a network that establishes her connections throughout valisthea without knowing who she is.    people do not know that kira is the raven.

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v.   FINAL FANTASY XV the unholy lady of niflheim   /    head of the columbidae    /    the dark sword of bahamut   /    herald of chaos *  influenced by the events of "the dawn of the future"

kira is from niflheim, a project that was made by verstael in effort to create a vessel to be able to harness the darkness exceeding the current capacity of magitek technology. but instead, the empire had gotten much more than they intended through bahamut's machinations, kira was born: she who was meant to be the incarnation of chaos, a primordial power that had been born from the turmoil brewed by the turmoil caused by the starscourge, left to slumber for so long until the draconian chose to awaken it. the empire wanted a weapon, bahamut needed a vessel to harbor chaos until the time was right for the eventual enactment of teraflare, someone who could harness chaos and mend it into something malleable, harnessable, so that bahamut in the end would sacrifice her to gain that power for the draconian's own, framed as another prophetic vanquishing of evil.

most of her life from her birth as an infant to being a child was spent in verstael's laboratories, she was treated as a weapon and not a human, like a sword being tempered in the forge. a lot of verstael's experiments (or "lessons", as the training was framed) were painful, but it only fueled kira's perspective of seeing herself as little else than a weapon with will. she was called "kira", having been given a name that means "light/bright" which she assumes was some kind of joke. it wasn't until kira was older that she managed to elude the confines of her "father's" laboratories and eventually begins to forge her own plan to exist outside of a confidential file, essentially creating an identity for herself in the empire for the sake of her survival.

which is how the dove came to be. a figure donned in liquid metal armor (similar to glauca's) made of a silver-white armor that stands at nearly 7ft tall, and there seems to be no one who knows what or who truly lies behind that helmet with designs similar to that of a bird's.    the dove is the alias of the commander of trained assassins and spies that they had banded together and chosen themself, known as the columbidae.    that's who kira is known as, with most unaware of who she truly was. given the nature of subtlety and confidentiality that kira was permitted to operate in, it gave her some yet limited freedom to exact and plan her own ambitions by her own means in secret. she has no sympathy for niflheim, if a little spiteful, and she doesn't really understand their war. not out of her own compassion since she herself doesn't quite feel "human", the way they operate just feels wasteful to her, in a logical sense.

by the start of the events of ff15, kira is twenty one years old and while she didn't participate in niflheim's attack on insomnia, she was declared missing and whereabouts unknown by the empire. she had resorted to operating on her own means, as even her columbidae had vanished without a trace, presumably to their leader's own instruction.

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v.   FINAL FANTASY VII SHINRA turk   /    vessel of shiva materia    /    traitor

in the foothill town of gongaga,    kira horikoshi grew up with her three brothers,   raised mostly by her eldest brother after the untimely death of their parents one winter.     she had grown up alongside her childhood best friend,    zack fair.     she eventually leaves the village and searches for her fortune in midgar where she started working as a turk for the shinra electric power company, alongside one of her older brothers, ashitaka. during a mission when kira was sent to a laboratory facility, she and her brother were on the same assignment and were faced with a dire situation, unable to escape the crumbling facility and evade their assailants. it was then that kira used the experimental materia found in the facility, which was shiva material that had been in its trial phases.     the unstable materia bound itself to kira, giving her ice - affiliated abilities and the ability to transform herself into shiva.    shinra considered her a valuable resource ever since then, but the truth of her nature was kept secret to the public.      she could mostly be seen doing very public missions in sector eight in order to keep up a certain mask that led others to divert their suspicions away from her.     most of her real assignments involved espionage carried out in secret on behalf of shinra,    though she has no loyalty to the company itself.

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v.   " THE  WISTERIA  GARDEN "   AU witch   ( half - human and half - fey )    /    owner of a magic shop called the wisteria garden

kira owns her own magic shop in a small seaside town called the wisteria garden!    it's a small building where you can always see ravens perched or flying in and out,   carrying parcels for delivery.     a large wisteria tree grows on the right side of the building,    intertwining with the brick as if it was growing into the foundation.    she sells potions fresh from the cauldron and tomes of all kinds!    the more difficult order the better;    she loves a good challenge.   owning her own shop gives her the advantage of enough free time to be able to focus on her own experiments.

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v.   MODERN  AU witch   /    professor of osteology + magic    ( specifically spellwork and alchemy ) full time,    part - time assassin    /    the chaos witch

in which kira is a university professor who lives in an apartment with her cat and 37 ravens who hang out on the rooftop.    she teaches osteology,   archaeology,   alchemy,   and a variety of spell - related subjects,  taking extra time after the usual school hours to be able to hold night classes for people who cannot afford to pay the usual tuition for the curriculum,    funding it with her own money.    this is important to her because she knows the risks magic users who do not know how to control their abilities can pose to themselves,    not only to others.    she has a part time job as an assassin.

alternative no - magic version:      everything is basically the same except she doesn't get to teach magic now :'(

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v. MAIN LORE witch ( half - human and half - fey ) / sorcerer + rogue / the chaos witch

the horikoshi clan is a prominent bloodline of warriors within the empire of hazakura.     their estate is found on an island off the east coast of hazakura known as anmatsuri, of which their family had long since protected.      they were most known for their remarkable combative ability throughout history, though was not a noble house of the empire themselves. they often operated separately.      hanshiro horikoshi was a man who could make a single blade feel like a hundred in battle,    the sentinel of anmatsuri who wielded the greatsword blessed by the primordial moon,     who battles monsters and creatures from the depths tirelessly,   keeping them from treading into the mainland.

masako was the daughter born between a forbidden affair between the unseelie king and the seelie queen,      raised in the seelie palaces despite her status as half - blood.    her mother had seen her as little more than a tool to be used as leverage against her former lover,      not even granting her the permission of the family name to use.      she was talented in spirit magic and healing,    arts tied to the life domain,    and a part of the high court of thaumaturgy amidst the animosity she experienced.     having grown bored of the perfectionism in the seelie high courts and their traditional outlook on established magic principle,     she left the feywilds to explore the material plane,     known as the realm of hiraeth.    she would push the limits of thaumaturgy and create several healing spells from scratch under a pseudonym that revolutionized magic forged in the life domain.

in her travels,    she would eventually meet hanshiro horikoshi in her travels,    whom she would take as her lover and husband.      together,    they would have three children:     matsuko,   the eldest.     ashitaka,    the second son.      and kira,    their youngest and only daughter.    when she would turn eight,     her mother and father rought home an infant they had adopted that same year:    a boy named yuuichiro who had no magic of his own and yet had a familiar with a strange magical nature.

kira horikoshi had manifested magic at a young age,     being able to summon storms whilst she lay in her crib,    leading her family to discover their infant daughter giggling and laughing in the midst of the tempest.   unbeknownst to her family at the time,     they would raise the child who was the first in centuries who was born with the affinity for chaos magic,    and in a vessel with unbridled ambition.    in the tradition of her clan,   she was trained to hold a blade the moment she could hold a training sword,    all the while learning magic with her mother.    with two older brothers who excelled in the art of combat,   she had always been eager to prove herself,    competitive ever since she had taken her first breath.

many who practiced the art of swords would travel to anmatsuri and challenge the horikoshi clan,   who were known masters of the blade.    it was said that her father enjoyed sending out his daughter to meet challengers,    finding their cocky demeanor entertaining when faced with their opponent:      a small girl, wielding a naginata.   it was all the more entertaining when she bested them in three swift moves.

when beasts from the abyss had swarmed anmatsuri after the wards around their waters had been broken,    she knows sacrifice for the first time,   and grief wears anger's face as she witnesses the death of her mother and father.     it is said that a much more terrible monster was born that evening :      the girl who acquainted herself with slaughter,    praised for the killing because of the lives it had saved,    not knowing what kind of hunger they had just introduced her to.      she was more monster than girl,       with wings like a raven sprouted from her back,       surging towards every beast to devour and kill.      those who carry the armor and blades of the dawn had mistaken her for one of the abyssal creatures and cut off the wings from her back,    bringing her back to their keep where she was experimented on for two years until she would break herself out and fight her way home.

the years that had passed only aimed to further kira's ambition,     as she had soon awakened the depths of her chaos magic and the tides of another age of calamity drew near.      there is a cycle of self - sacrifice that she subjects herself to,      in order to earn the power she so desires.     she journeyed throughout the realm in search for answers regarding primordial chaos,      as she becomes one of the four omens of calamity,    alongside:      the dragon of ruin,    the false king,    and the sovereign of light.      she pursued power,     at the risk of all she had     ( even bargaining her own life in a tie to necromancy in exchange for more space to fill herself with magic ),    and kira horikoshi would be known as the most powerful witch throughout the realm of hazakura.

prologue arc    ( 18 - 24 years old ):      shortly after finishing her studies at the isles of lore where she had extensively pursued the arts of levin and hail,    along with alchemic arts,   kira had set off and founded the band of corvids,    a traveling group that started with her and a handful of her childhood friends,    including ryoma kaneshiro,    silao isagani,    thais of lakandula,    and theoden rosgrave.      kira is a mercenary and traveling witch,    continuing her study on artifacts from the age of ancients,     occasionally found performing displays of magic akin to a mini theatre in the streets where her wanted posters are blatantly displayed on the city walls.

present arc   (  25 years old + ):       the chaos witch is a being that has become a living myth,     in a mask with raven - like features and the power of the primordials radiating off them.     in the wake of silao's betrayal and reveal as the false king,    the blame for the summoning of the third age of calamity has been placed on the chaos witch,     a conjured villain that kira intended to make her own,     fueled by her desire for power after she had killed the exalt of order.      they frame her as a false god,    the incarnation of primordial chaos who had claimed the dragon of the ruined lands.     only a handful of people know that kira horikoshi is the chaos witch.

meanwhile,     kira is known as the strongest witch in the realm of hiraeth,    as she continues to travel in pursuit of her own ambitions and left the band of corvids to the command of ryoma as they have gone to follow their respective paths in the wake of silao's betrayal of them all and his ascendance.    she is an assassin under the alias of the raven when the role suits her,     and other times can be found teaching children how to perform magic within the schools of the isles of lore.epilogue arc    (  late 30's to 40+ years old  ):    coming soon.

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i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.

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